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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Bile duct scope with duct widening and stent placement

CPT 47556the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through an existing T-tube drain tract, a narrowed bile duct is stretched open, and a stent is left in place to hold it open.

Hospitals typically charge $4,791 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 991 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,664. Most fall between $2,282 and $11,378 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
991
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 991 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,129$2,640$4,791$10,242$14,616

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,129 vs $14,616).

How the prices are spread

$705 – $1,000: 39 hospitals$705$1,000 – $1,419: 30 hospitals$1,419 – $2,012: 55 hospitals$1,419$2,012 – $2,853: 124 hospitals$2,853 – $4,046: 133 hospitals$2,853$4,046 – $5,738: 124 hospitals$5,738 – $8,136: 94 hospitals$5,738$8,136 – $11,538: 153 hospitals$11,538 – $16,363: 110 hospitals$11,538$16,363 – $23,204: 37 hospitals$16,363median $4,791price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (899 of 991 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$705$1,00039
$1,000$1,41930
$1,419$2,01255
$2,012$2,853124
$2,853$4,046133
$4,046$5,738124
$5,738$8,13694
$8,136$11,538153
$11,538$16,363110
$16,363$23,20437

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$10,860
Median cash price$4,791
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.44×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,791.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $6,227 across 30 hospitalsWA$6,227Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $6,652 across 44 hospitalsIL$6,652Wisconsin: median $2,862 across 28 hospitalsWI$2,862Michigan: median $3,591 across 24 hospitalsMI$3,591New York: median $12,320 across 45 hospitalsNY$12,320Massachusetts: median $7,375 across 18 hospitalsMA$7,375Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,074 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,074Indiana: median $2,784 across 35 hospitalsIN$2,784Ohio: median $6,764 across 65 hospitalsOH$6,764Pennsylvania: median $10,867 across 58 hospitalsPA$10,867New Jersey: median $11,524 across 41 hospitalsNJ$11,524Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,883 across 99 hospitalsCA$5,883Utah: median $2,646 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,646Colorado: median $10,241 across 19 hospitalsCO$10,241Nebraska: median $861 across 14 hospitalsNE$861Missouri: median $5,305 across 22 hospitalsMO$5,305Kentucky: median $23,204 across 13 hospitalsKY$23,204West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,841 across 19 hospitalsVA$2,841Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,475 across 23 hospitalsAZ$3,475New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,709 across 11 hospitalsTN$1,709North Carolina: median $3,433 across 15 hospitalsNC$3,433South Carolina: median $3,913 across 21 hospitalsSC$3,913Oklahoma: median $1,964 across 21 hospitalsOK$1,964Louisiana: median $3,070 across 24 hospitalsLA$3,070Mississippi: median $3,840 across 12 hospitalsMS$3,840Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,023 across 36 hospitalsGA$4,023Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,945 across 62 hospitalsTX$6,945Florida: median $5,111 across 50 hospitalsFL$5,111
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,791. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY13$23,204+384%$779 – $23,204
New York NY45$12,320+157%$4,265 – $13,269
New Jersey NJ41$11,524+141%$4,500 – $13,753
Pennsylvania PA58$10,867+127%$4,108 – $18,827
Colorado CO19$10,241+114%$2,788 – $12,247
Massachusetts MA18$7,375+54%$3,252 – $11,461
Texas TX62$6,945+45%$2,650 – $10,625
Ohio OH65$6,764+41%$4,177 – $13,176
Illinois IL44$6,652+39%$1,522 – $12,741
Washington WA30$6,227+30%$2,970 – $10,156
California CA99$5,883+23%$2,635 – $9,083
Missouri MO22$5,305+11%$618 – $9,360
Florida FL50$5,111+7%$2,349 – $12,321
Georgia GA36$4,023−16%$3,580 – $4,470
South Carolina SC21$3,913−18%$3,132 – $5,706
Mississippi MS12$3,840−20%$1,938 – $4,825
Michigan MI24$3,591−25%$2,989 – $13,916
Arizona AZ23$3,475−27%$1,251 – $11,746
North Carolina NC15$3,433−28%$663 – $6,020
Louisiana LA24$3,070−36%$1,795 – $5,467
Wisconsin WI28$2,862−40%$2,640 – $10,242
Virginia VA19$2,841−41%$2,149 – $3,391
Indiana IN35$2,784−42%$1,848 – $6,445
Utah UT23$2,646−45%$2,646 – $3,113
Iowa IA15$2,074−57%$960 – $4,216
Oklahoma OK21$1,964−59%$884 – $2,666
Tennessee TN11$1,709−64%$426 – $2,106
Nebraska NE14$861−82%$488 – $4,245
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $4,791.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care906$5,002$2,349 – $11,461
Children’s22$2,970$1,157 – $10,533
Critical access59$3,308$1,055 – $10,603
Ownership
For-profit97$4,893$2,349 – $11,191
Government107$4,825$2,022 – $12,320
Non-profit783$4,791$2,194 – $11,171
System affiliation
Part of a system875$4,791$2,349 – $11,524
Independent116$4,999$1,426 – $10,451

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,498
Median cash price$4,791
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

781 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,245 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,096; most fall between $2,105 and $10,533.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 781 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,036$2,583$4,245$9,083$14,223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,036 vs $14,223).

Of the 847 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 781 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

991 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,071 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted991
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,071

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biliary Ndsc Prq T-Tube Dilat Strix W/Stent.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bile duct scope with duct widening and stent placement (CPT 47556) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47556-bile-duct-scope-with-duct-widening-and-stent-placement